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Resources for Infrastructure Week

The White House has dubbed this week "infrastructure week" to talk about the infrastructure proposals in the President's recent budget, including an extra $200 billion in infrastructure spending, shifting air traffic control from the federal government to a non-profit organization, and reducing future highway spending. We'll release analysis later this week explaining the proposals in more depth.

Below is some of our recent work on transportation.

The Highway Trust Fund is persistently short of funds, with dedicated spending much higher than dedicated revenues. Although the most recent highway bill transferred enough money into the Trust Fund to last until 2021 (funded largely by a budget gimmick), the highway shortfall remains.

The Road to Sustainable Highway Spending showed one possible solution to bring highway spending in line with revenue, relying on some general revenue transfers, gas tax increases, and limits on future transportation spending to what is financed.